I bought the game for 5$ on steam during the summer sale and can not start a new game. It loads up fine, plays all the movies, but then the main menu never appears, all that happens is an infinite background loop. Anyone know of a fix/bypass for this?

I am running 7pro 64 bit, 9800gt, 2 gigs of ram and 3.1 dual core.

I have done the various physX and change effects path from sdocs to documents but no luck.

When the title screen comes up there are some Glyphs in front of the background, but as soon as the mouse moves over them they vanish.

First, find the game in steam folders. Then open data/fsystems.xml (install Programmer's Notepad, if you want).
This error may occur in case the game doesn't have an access to your Public Documents and cannot work with materials.

Go to \Users\Public\Documents\My Games\Void\Cache and copy the contents. Then create a folder on your disk with the same files.

In fsystems.xml find the following lines:

  <Language Name="English" />
	<system name="cache">
		<Path>{shdocs}/Cache</Path>
	</system>

Shouldn't be too difficult, as these are at the beginning of the file. Type the path to your folder in place of "{shdocs}/Cache".

There are also important paths at the very end:

  <system name="save">
    <Path>{documents}/Savegames</Path>
  </system>
  <system name="log">
    <Path>{documents}/LogFiles</Path>
  </system>

But there's no reason to touch them right now. You may use "{documents}/Cache" for shaders' cache, by the way. Only don't forget to copy the actual data there, or else the game will compile shaders in real-time. Which causes sudden slowdowns in the game (that is, until you encounter every possible material under every possible combination of types of light sources)